16.279, Confs: Cognitive Science/Newark, DE, USA

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Subject: 16.279, Confs: Cognitive Science/Newark, DE, USA

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Date: 26-Jan-2005
From: Yurie Hara < yhara at udel.edu >
Subject: International Workshop on the Evolution of Cognition

	
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:06:58
From: Yurie Hara < yhara at udel.edu >
Subject: International Workshop on the Evolution of Cognition


International Workshop on the Evolution of Cognition

Date: 17-Feb-2005 - 19-Feb-2005
Location: Newark, DE, United States of America
Contact: Yurie Hara
Contact Email: yhara at udel.edu
Meeting URL: http://www.ling.udel.edu/cogsci/evolution/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science

Meeting Description:

The evolution of cognition and language are some of the remaining puzzles
that face cognitive science.  This workshop explores the issues of how and
why cognitive abilities evolved.  It includes presentations from the
perspective of anthropology, cognitive ethology, engineering, philosophy,
psychology, and more. The conference is free and open to the public.
Advanced registration is encouraged.  See the website for the conference
(http://www.ling.udel.edu/cogsci/evolution/) for directions and details.

Presession: Thursday, February 17th
Plenary Session I: Friday, February 18th
Plenary Session II: Saturday, February 19th

Presession
Thursday, February 17th
  12:00pm-1:30pm (Trabant Room 209, 211)
Juliette Blevins
Max Planck Institute-Leipzig  Convergence and Divergence in Evolutionary
Phonology

4:00pm (108 Memorial)

Juliette Blevins
Max Planck Institute-Leipzig  An Overview of Evolutionary Phonology


Plenary session I
Friday, February 18th (Location: Willard 007)
  9:30am
Dan Rich, Provost
University of Delaware  Opening remarks and greeting

10:00am

Philip Lieberman
Brown University  TBA

11:00am

Tom Schoenemann
University of Pennsylvania  TBA

Noon (Lunch Break)

1:30pm

Daniel Povinelli
University of Louisianna-Lafayette  Bodily Origins of SELF: An Evolutionary
Hypothesis

2:30pm

Josep Call
Max Planck Institute-Leipzig  On the evolution of thinking ahead

3:30pm

Antoni Gomila
University of Balearic Islands  The evolution of language: why ontogenesis
does not recapitulate phylogenesis

4:30pm Reception


Plenary session II
Saturday, February 19th (Location: Willard 007)
  10:00am

Dorothy Cheney
Robert Seyfarth
University of Pennsylvania  Who, me? Baboons infer another animal's intent
to communicate
Social cognition and the origins of language

Noon (Lunch Break)

1:30pm

Michael Arbib
University of Southern California  Giving Vocalization a Hand in Evolving
the Language-Ready Brain

2:30pm

Colin Allen
Indiana University  Macaque Mirror Neurons: Detecting Intentions
Intentionally?

3:30pm

Charles Yang
Yale University  Evolving an imperfect language





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